NORFOLK — Back home after a disappointing road trip that included several shots to the collective windpipe, Old Dominion coach Jeff Jones presided over a team meeting last Monday before practice.
No anguish or finger-pointing. No fiery...

Mike Krzyzewski advocates for ACC basketball like few others, but no matter the league's heights, his reverence for its 1980s vintage remains. Jordan and Worthy, Sampson and Bias, Dawkins and Ferry, Lefty and Dean, Cremins and Jimmy V.
Duke's coach...

During the past two weeks, FAU guard Solomon Poole has felt the tension building. Whether in practice, during the Owls' last road trip or in the second half of their most recent games, Poole has noticed that he and his teammates have focused more and more...

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Freshman Abby Rendle had season-highs of 16 points and 10 rebounds as William and Mary (6-3) won 71-51 Thursday night at Wofford in Spartanburg, S.C. Jazmen Boone added 15 points and six rebounds.
Coming off a 12-day layoff, the Tribe began the...

In the powerhouse world of Alabama college football, the Blazers have long been the scrappy underdog.
This season, there was a turnaround for the University of Alabama at Birmingham: A new coach led the team to six wins, game attendance doubled to more than 20,000, and after a 45-24 victory against Southern Miss, the Blazers became eligible to play in a bowl game for the first time in a decade.
Then it came crashing down.
A few days after that lopsided victory, university President Ray L. Watts...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The University of Alabama at Birmingham will shutter its football program at the end of the current season due to the increasing costs associated with it, the school said on Tuesday. The UAB Blazers have struggled to draw fans in a state where they are overshadowed by two national college football powerhouses, the University of Alabama and Auburn University. Eliminating the NCAA Division I program will free the university from spending tens of millions of dollars on the it in the coming...

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When the University of Alabama-Birmingham chose to terminate its football program on Tuesday, the impact was felt in South Florida's recruiting scene.
No one was affected more than Stranahan defensive end Kirk Livingstone. The 6-foot-4, 235-pound senior was the area's lone UAB commit. After receiving a phone call from UAB offensive coordinator Bryant Vincent, Livingstone knew he had to restart his recruitment.
"I found out about it first on Twitter," Livingstone said. "(Vincent) was the coach who...

After a terrible game the night before, Isaac Hamilton was in the process of regrouping when Tyus Edney sidled up to him at the pregame meal Friday.
Edney, UCLA's director of basketball operations, had played in the NBA, where, he counseled Hamilton, a short memory is essential. Hamilton had gone scoreless on six shots against North Carolina with seven turnovers Thursday. That's over now, Edney told him.
"You've just got to let it go," Hamilton said.
The crowd cleared out before UCLA's bounce-back...